Here's how to configure adoptable storage on your S7 / S7 Edge

If you've been following the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 Edge, you may have read that adoptable storage, a Marshmallow feature that lets you use the microSD card just like internal storage, is missing. The S7s do include a feature where you can move apps to SD card, but it's not quite the same. The good news? You can enable the feature using ADB and it seems to work great, including in hybrid ('mixed') mode.

In order to set adoptable storage up, you will need a computer with working 'adb' and, of course, a microSD card in your phone, the faster the better (I personally use a 128GB EVO+ in my own device. Here's the process!

1. BACK UP THE DATA YOU HAVE ON YOUR MICROSD CARD. Your card will be formatted by this process, so make sure you have saved any pictures, videos etc. from your card to your PC before you start.

2. Decide how you want to split your card. You can either commit 100% of the card to internal storage, or split between internal storage and conventional SD. This option is useful if you like to unplug your card and put it in your PC. I would probably recommend committing the whole card.

3. Open your command window / terminal on your computer and type the 'adb shell' command (with your phone connected of course). You will need to enable USB debugging in developer settings (which in turn is displayed by tapping the build number of the device 5 times) in order to see the option.

4. Type 'sm list-disks' to list the disks available for adoption. It'll look something like below - take note of the disk ID (disk:179:160 in this example).

5. Partition the disk. For this we use the 'sm partition DISK TYPE RATIO' command. For example, to partition the disk above as fully adopted storage (aka private) I'd use the command 'sm partition disk:179:160 private'. If I wanted a 50/50 split between adopted and regular, I'd use the command 'sm partition disk:179:160 mixed 50'. Easy right?

6. This process will take a while, but when it's done, the Settings -> Additional Settings -> Storage view on your device should show the new Internal Storage. Note that, for some reason, the total space isn't reported correctly as you can see in this image, however everything seems to work OK. When you install apps, they will generally install automatically to the storage with the most space available, although you can manually move things around if you want to, perhaps for performance reasons (the real Internal storage will likely always be a bit faster).

7. If you want to see another view of how you are doing for space, you can use a third party tool such as FreeSpace or FreeSpace Plus.

And that's it! Let us know how you get on, and enjoy your new, expanded S7!

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Hi, I am using this from beginning - thanks, it saved me. But I have some problems now. All caused by Galaxy app store. Just can't update it. Becouse I can't update it, I can't use many samsung pre-installed apps like whole microsoft office or install new fonts. I was trying to install new app store from apk, even flash it as zip, nothing. Error about how I don't have enough space(I have). It can be downloaded but can't be installed. I also can't install some other APKs like Eset security from coupon gift. But some other APKs are working normally. Play store is working too. Is this adoptable storage bug, or something else? Anyone with this problem and possible solution, other than backup card, format it, install updates and make it adoptable again? thx

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In phone go to storage --> SD --> format as portable storage (free translation, I don't use EN in s7). It will delete your stuff, except few things which stayed on original internal storage. So mostly system apps, settings and things like that stay. Its not full factory reset. If you have backup and patience you can go back and storage space numbers return to normal (try restart if don't). At least for me it was like that.

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Once you are done following the guide... Go to Settings > Storage > SD Card > More (upper right corner). Then migrate files to the SD Card. Otherwise when you connect to a PC to load videos or MP3's you will have a heart attack when you don't see the space. This will fix the problem!

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i used a 32 gb SD card, but when i klick on storage after the process the device said i used 101 gb of 128 gb. okay, it's said above but when i connected the phone to my windows pc, it only displays 32gb of storage. shouldn't this be displayed right? :-(

any ideas, how i can split the storage on the phone site an double it on the windows side?

And did anyone else notice network connection errors with the samsung store after add sd card to internal storage? when i restore the changes the store works again.

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I do all the steps above and now i've got the adoptable storage, but if I try to install new apps, they always get saved automatically on the intern memory again, not on the new internal sd memory ... so the memory is getting full again all the time.

Can anyone help me please ?! Thanks

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If you migrated data after setting up adopted storage. How do you migrate back to internal? Will formatting adopted storage automatically mean any new download and photos appearing on internal storage? - sorted if you migrate data as again it will return all to internal.

I can see download folder, photos, music and video on the adopted memory. Some apps but new apps will still appear in internal storage.

I have renamed the adopted storage unsure whether this will create any problems?

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I do all the steps above and now i've got the adoptable storage, but if I try to install new apps, they always get saved automatically on the original intern memory again, not on the new internal sd memory ... so the intern memory is getting full again all the time.

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Thank you for sharing me how to make the adaptable storage work. The samsung Smart Switch show that the internal memory has been significantly enlarged. However, I am having another problem. The bust mode of the camera is not working !!! Even regular shooting mode becomes very slow and unstable. Is that because of the adaptable storage ? Please advise. It is very annoying.

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Is this process able to work on the Samsung galaxy express prime? I have a Samsung 64gig evo and would like to use this for that but without messing it up in anyway. I'm running 6.0 marshmallow but whenever I go to my SD card I don't have an option to merge it to my internal only to mount.

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